Satchmo SummerFest Kick-off Party is a three-day local music event on the grounds of the Louisiana State Museum's Old U.S. Mint. Satchmo SummerFest begin July 31-August 2, 2015 with local music with a focus on contemporary and traditional jazz and brass bands.

What’s the Cause of You’re Weight Gain and How to Prevent it
Are you tired of gaining weight? Do you often find yourself frustrated and feeling defeated by this reality? Well, if this indeed happening, of course you do. After all, none of us enjoy it when the number on our scale begins to climb. However, the bigger question is why are you gaining weight?
Well, the answer is often found in recent life...

Dining

Every season is drinking season in New Orleans, but summertime gets an extra special spotlight for its refreshing cocktails. With festivals and outdoor concerts in full swing, there are plenty of reasons to be hitting up NOLA’s finest bars, and many of them are not only featuring delicious and original summer drinks, but are also...

Fried green tomatoes are a southern classic. Here in New Orleans, you often find them at restaurants served with a generous drizzle of remoulade sauce as an appetizer. They're crunchy, salty, and still technically a vegetable (well, fruit), so... healthy? I've done something to combine the flavors of the American South...

Catching Catfish
First and foremost, this is not a fishing article. To be perfectly honest, I have never even been fishing and the only kind of lure I’m familiar with are enticing food photos that, on occasion, have been known to entice folks to dine out. My dad used to go fishing with our neighbors, the Wons, who lived across the...

Entertainment

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With this Latin spin on the American western, Gael García Bernal cements himself as one of today’s most overtly political actors. He’s portrayed Che Guevara, human rights activist Maziar Bahari, and now…well,...

Geoffrey Adams' clinically crazy first novel, Wielding the Hamsterfish, reads like Brett Easton Ellis’ The Rules of Attraction if it were edited by a Fear and Loathing-era Hunter S. Thomson. It is a hallucinogenic rollercoaster of booze-fueled sci-fi insanity set in the Big Easy.
Adams' mystery unfolds...

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This is not saying much, but as Adam Sandler movies go, Pixels is one of the better ones. It's still a forgettable comedy, but it's inoffensive and goes down easy. Part of the reason Pixels is tolerable is that it's not directed by one of Sandler's go-to guys and hack extraordinaires like Dennis Dugan or Frank Coraci. This time there is an actual filmmaker at the helm, Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry...

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Getting in shape isn't easy, it requires a substantial amount of commitment in terms of eating healthy, portion control, and making time to be active at least 5 out of 7 days/week. Thanks to Buzzfeed there is a convenient guide for the lazy to get in shape. Commitment is hard to come by, I can barely commit to a show on Netflix...

From landing the interview, rocking it, buying better groceries to healthy relationships being an adult sounded a whole lot better from my living room as a sat watching Disney movies when I was less than four feet tall, than it does now. Unfortunately, there's no manual on being an adult, it's a learn as you go process that is more often...

Science has the answers to countless queries, recently added to that mix is the question "How do I get through a day at work, after a sleepless night?" We've all been there. Perhaps, it was the awesome band that played last night, or a restless child or maybe you just couldn't get comfortable - while our reasons are different it is common...